Street-refuse collector.



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STREET REFUSE COLLECTOR. APPLICATION TILED MAY 31, 1911.

1,016,556 v Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

.Hlllll WITNESSES! COLUMBIA PLANMIAPH co., WASHINGTON, D. c.

HERMAN'N Donnie, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

STREET-REFUSE COLLECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 31, 1911.

Patented Feb. 6, 1912.

Serial No. 630,401.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERMANN DoRINe, a citizen of the Empire of Germany, residing at Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have invented a new anduseful Street Refuse Collector, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved street refuse collector adapted to be disposed in a side-walk and to receive the refuse swept into it from the road.

The collector consists of a vessel open at the top and perforated at the bottom, which vessel is embedded in the soil, further of a frame on the upper edge of the vessel and flushing with the side-walk, a receptacle for refuse inserted in the vessel and suspended from the frame, and a cover in two parts, of which the larger one is hinged to the frame on the side opposite to the road, 'while the smaller part is hinged to the free edge of the large cover part and is adapted to open and to close an aperture, through which the refuse can be swept from the road into the receptacle.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section through the street refuse collector in a plane at right angles to the side-walk and the road, the small cover part being turned upward, Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the small cover part being turned downward to close the aperture, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the upper frame in a plane at right angles to Fig. 1, the small cover part being turned upward as in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

a is a vessel of clay or the like of square cross section, open at the top and perforated at the bottom, and is embedded in the soil. A metallic frame 0 is placed on the upper edge of the vessel a and is made to flush with the upper surface of the side-walk S, which in Fig. 2 is shown to be composed of flags g, g, border-stones h h and an intermediate paving of small stones 2'. Of course the construction of the side-walk S is immaterial to my invention. The frame 0 has an aperture f, the bottom of which flushes with the road R. A receptacle 7) of any construction can be inserted through the frame 0 into the vessel a and made to rest with its upper bent edge on a shoulder j of the frame. Hinged to the frame 0 at 70 is a large cover part cl which extends to a point Z near the right side of the frame and can be turned upward on the side-walk S. Fastened to the underside of the cover part d is a sort of guide 6 made of sheet metal for better conducting the refuse from the road R into the receptacle b. Hinged at Z to the free end of the large cover part (Z is a small cover part al which isadapted to close the aperture f on being turned downward, as is shown at Fig.- 2. Normally both cover parts (Z and d are kept closed. When the road R has been cleaned by sweeping, the small cover part d can be turned upward for opening the aperture fafter which the refuse can be pushed over the guide 6 into the receptacle 6, whereupon the cover part (Z is again turned downward. For taking the filled receptacle 7) out of the vessel a both cover parts cl and d require to be opened. As the small cover part al does not require a great force for handling it, the cleaning of the road R is rendered easy.

I claim:

1. In a street refuse collector, the combination with a vessel open at the top and adapted to be embedded in the soil, of a frame on the upper edge of said vessel made to flush with the side-walk and having an inner shoulder and an aperture in the side in line with the border stones, the bottom of the aperture being made to flush with the road, a large cover part adapted to cover the greater portion of said frame, a small cover part hinged to said large cover part and adapted to open and to close the aperture of said frame, and a receptacle for refuse adapted to be inserted into said vessel and to rest with its upper edge on the inner shoulder of said frame. 1

2. In a street refuse collector, the combination with a vessel open at the top and adapted to be embedded in the soil, of a frame on the upper edge of said vessel made to flush with the side-walk and having an inner shoulder and an aperture in the side in line with the border-stones, the bottom of the aperture being made to flush with the road, a receptacle for refuse adapted to be inserted into said Vessel and to rest With its tacle, and a small cover part hinged to said upper edge on the inner shoulder of said large cover part and adapted to open and to frame, a large cover part hinged to said close the aperture of said frame.

' frame and adapted to cover its greater por- HERMANN DORING.

tion, a guide fastened to the underside of Witnesses: said large cover part and adapted to conduct HAND AMMIN, the refuse from the road into said recep- GEORGE BLOESY.

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